Camryn Manheim Quotes

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

If something interesting comes up, I would love to do something in Bangla in future, especially since I can speak Bangali fluently.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I think, as you get older, your brain is a bit slower.

The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Usage is the best language teacher.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.